Risen - Preview @ Destructoid

Yeah, don't forget that shortly before G3's release all hand-on previews were noting
the slew of bugs and problems (some german sites quite scathingly).

Naturally, back then, we all expected PB's assurances that "this was alpha version this
or beta version that and all will be fixed" to come true...

This time around,and especially when everyone (even reviewers peripheral to the
genre) has heard the G3 horror stories, I find it encouraging that most don't mention
bugs or take the time to note that they saw only very few minor issues (and that was
in the beta stage IIRC).

I was pretty pissed with the way PB and JoWood handled the G3 mess and promised
myself that it would have to be "demo first or no buy" this time. But I get a good vibe
from all I am hearing so I decided to preorder anyway (demo is coming though and
thats a good thing).

P.S Speaking of things not mentioned, seems PB succeeded to make the game more
accessible and the learning curve mild enough so it doesn't warrant paragraphs of complaints from the more casual gamers. Guess we'll have to wait and see what that
means to us old fanboys

JDR13 said:

I'm confident Risen is going to be fairly well prepared when it's released, PB doesn't want a repeat of Gothic 3.

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I think that is what we are all counting on - solid performance on minimum spec machines, and relatively stable performance for all.